| FirstWorks Presents: PIXILERATIONS [v.5] | | | |
| Interactive gallery installations, surround-sound electronic media concerts, experimental nightclub jams, and video art will animate downtown Providence, RI for Pixilerations [v.5]: fragments & (w)holes, part of the FirstWorks Festival 2008. | Thursday 10/2: Opening & Artists Talk | | 6-9pm: Reception & viewing
 In the Sol Koffler and 191 Westminster Street Galleries (maps below).
7pm: ARTSTS UP CLOSE -- Pixilerations expands in its fifth year to host Heidi Kumao, a video and machine artist, and Gail Wight, a conceptual artist who tests the limits of science. TONIGHT Gail Wight and Heidi Kumao discuss their work at the 191 Westminster Gallery "auditorium" space. FREE. Also in the galleries, visitors will enter Entanglement Witness a virtual world created by Todd Winkler and Cindy Cummings; follow anonymous romances from Craigslist.org in Cristobal Mendoza's text sculpture Missed Connections; let Matthew Williamson's Video Analyzer decide whether a DVD is boring; and play Balance, a physical "video game" by Danqing Shi; and much more from these remarkable artists: Abby Donovan, Andrew Ames, Ashley John Pigford, Betsy Connors, Erik Conrad, Jamie Jewett, Lucky Leone, Martina Mrongovius, Paulina Sierra, and Yana Sakellion.
The Pixilerations galleries are in downtown Providence:
Sol Koffler (169 Weybosset St.)
&
The 191 Westminster St. Gallery (between Eddy and Dorrance)
GALLERIES WILL BE OPEN DAILY
12 noon - 6pm
For the duration of the Pixilerations festival (Oct. 3-12) Click to see a map of both gallery locations. | | Friday 10/3: Club Pixil | | 10pm: tazza café
250 Westminster St
 This celebratory night of DJ innovation and experimental electronics features: Joshua Fried's Radio Wonderland, turning live radio into recombinant funk; Alex Kotch's Chopper Remix (of a remix of a remix); Tone wHoles (with Theremin on electronic guitar, and percussion by Jim Moses, Lyn Goeringer and Micheal DeQuattro); and Kevin Wilson's Modeling Synthesis, Alternative Controllers, and Dynamic Harmonization. FREE. click here for directions to tazza cafe | | Tuesday 10/7: Acousmatic Concert | | 8pm: Grant Recital Hall
Brown University
Surround-sound computer music and visual experiments by Jeffery Hass, Stephen Travis Pope, Robert Dow, Pau de Nut, Jen-Kuang Chang, Eleazar Garzon, Arvid Tomayko-Peters, Freida Abtan, Aaron Acosta, and Mei-ling Lee.
FREE. Click here for directions to the Grant Recital Hall, 1 Young Orchard St., on the Brown University Campus |
| Wednesday 10/8: Video Art Screening | | 9pm: hosted by Magic Lantern, at the Cable Car
 A screening of 23 videos that range from the experimental photography of Andreas Zingerle's Solargrafica to Brian Chin's compact relationship study This Close But Not Alone, and Blair Neal's light-speed critique of consumer culture 10,000 Items or Less. And more great work from: Dave Griffiths, Michael Hersrud, Anton Hecht, Birkbeck & Duffy, Brian DeLevie and Isshaela Ingham, Chikashi Miyama, Daniel Foerste, Henry Gwiazda, Maggi Payne, Mike Hannon and Irene Buckley, Sarah Buckius, Susan Bowman, Conor O'Kelly-Lynch, and Pauline Sierra.
Suggested donation of $5. The Cable Car Cinema & Cafe is at 204 South Main Street. |
| Friday & Saturday 10/10 & 10/11: Concert Performances | | 10 pm: URI Shepard Building Auditorium (downtown)
PIXILERATED: Concert Performances I&II
A two-part series of groundbreaking interactive performances and experimental video. FREE.
FRIDAY, October 10th: Jacob Richmond, Lucky Leone, Maggi Payne, Hugo Solis, Lyn Goeringer, and Butch Rovan.
SATURDAY, October 11th: Arvid Tomayko-Peters, Jon Christopher Nelson, Brian Knoth, Steven Kemper, Alessandro Cipriani, the MEME Ensemble, and Christopher Biggs. The URI Shepard Building Auditorium
is located at 80 Washington Street (downtown). |
| Thank you! | |  Thank you to the artists and organizations who have donated their time, talent, and resources to make this festival and exhibition possible.
Pixilerations is a collaboration between FirstWorks and the MEME program (Music Department) at Brown, the Digital+Media (DM) program at RISD, the Visual Art Department at Brown, MIT, Johnson & Wales, with other support from RISD, Brown, and the Providence community. Thanks to everyone! |
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